The Problem With the March for Science
Our culture’s understanding of science is very, very broken, and on Saturday, it was impossible to ignore.
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Broad Institute Tests the Limits of 'Nonprofit'
The Broad Institute draws NIH funding to subsidize dozens of basic research projects, many of them conducted with commercial partners. But it is the Broad’s handling of its own CRISPR business and partnerships that threaten to undermine its nonprofit mission.
Nature Journals Support the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment
Nature journals have signed up to the principles of the Declaration on Research Assessment agreement.
The Perils of Public Outreach
A culture that normalizes hypercritical peers is a problem for scientists who want to reach beyond academe.
Trump and Brexit Opportunities for EU Science
Ten years of Dutch participation in the ERC programme have been very rewarding for the small nation. The Dutch population accounts for only 3% of the total union but it receives an impressive 9% of the ERC grants. Is this a blessing or a curse?
Reviewers Are Blinkered by Bibliometrics
Science panels still rely on poor proxies to judge quality and impact.
We Need to Break Science out of Its Ivory Tower
We can overcome the tyranny of inaccessible science hardware by building a movement for equity in science.
If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less
If Trump Wants to Make America Great Again, the Nation Should Spend More on R&D, Not Less
The president’s proposed cuts to research funding would cripple American innovation. We should be spending more on R&D, not less.
Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand
Knowing the world may require giving up on understanding it.
ProgrammingHistorian.org
A novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate their research.
Horizon 2020 Success Rates Are Higher Than They Appear
Take proposals that should never have been submitted out of the figures, and the chances of winning funding look a lot brighter.
Mozilla Learning: Web Literacy
A framework for entry-level web literacy & 21st Century skills.
Historic Co-Authorships Speed up Editor Handling Times
Journal editors tend to accept manuscripts written by prior collaborators more quickly.
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
Reproducible and Reusable Research: Are Journal Data Sharing Policies Meeting the Mark?
The pervasiveness and quality of data sharing policies in the biomedical literature.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
Employment Status Given to Nearly All PhD Candidates
The Swedish government has changed the university law to ensure all doctoral candidates are made an employee of the university with a salary.
The Ethics and Economics of Academic Publishing
Is it unethical for a Publisher to extract content from an academic author and commercially benefit from the sale of this without returning any of the economic gains back to the provider of that content or his/her employer?
Can Scientific Discovery Be Automated?
Progress in the sciences can only move as fast as humans can think—outsourcing to A.I. could change that.
Driverless Cars? How the Road to the Future Will Be Driven by Machine Learning
March for Science: Protesters Gather Worldwide to Support 'Evidence'
Crowds massed in the US capital and around the world Saturday to support science and evidence-based research -- a protest partly fueled by opposition to President Donald Trump's threats of budget cuts to agencies funding scientists' work.
Too Many Studies Have Hidden Conflicts of Interest. A New Tool Makes It Easier to See Them.
Inside eLife: Forking Software Used in ELife Papers to GitHub
New eLife's GitHub account to track new software or a new algorithm when they are central to an article and to make sure that the right version of the code that was used within an article persists.
Jimmy Wales Goes After Fake News with Wikitribune
In an exclusive video with WIRED, Wales said he wants Wikitribune to 'bring the fact-based, fact-checking mentality we know from Wikipedia to news'
What We Can Learn From Tweets Linking to Research Papers
3 basic issues inherent in using tweets for research evaluation: whose tweets can be used to assess a paper, what objects can be evaluated, and how to score the paper according to each tweet.
Scientists Are Armed with the Truth. But it Won’t Win Them the Culture War.
We all love science when it’s making life better, longer and easier. It’s a much harder sell when it points to inconvenient truths about our way of life
An Open Source Pharma Roadmap
How open source methods of working could be applied to the discovery and development of new medicines.
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